Privacy

Last updated: August 31, 2021

Web Analytics and Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your visit to the website, including your Internet Protocol address, information about the operating system of your computer or device, and information about your browser.

This information is processed by Google Analytics to generate statistics for the Law Society about patterns of user visits to the website. This information may be used to measure the use and performance of the website and to improve the experience of visitors to the website. This information will not be used to identify individual users.

This website also uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website sends to your browser for storage on your computer or device. You may modify your browser to decline, delete or disable cookies. Please note that declining, deleting or disabling cookies may result in your inability to use certain parts of the website as they are intended to be used.

Information collected

When you use this website, the Law Society of Manitoba collects the following information (“Information”):

1. Contact information, such as name, company name, address, billing address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address.
2. Automatic information received and stored whenever you use this website, such as internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login, e-mail address, password, computer connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system and platform, the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from this website, including date and time, cookie number and products that you viewed or searched for.

The Information may be used to provide you with Continuing Professional Development resources made available on this website, including to fill your requests for educational resources, to respond to your communications to the Law Society, to communicate with you, to customize your use of this website, to administer this website, to diagnose technical problems with this website, and to develop and communicate new educational resources.

Payments

The Law Society may offer and provide paid products and/or services through our website, such as continuing professional development resources. In that case, the Law Society may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

• The Law Society will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to the Law Society’s third-party payment processors, whose use of your information is governed by their own Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. The Law Society’s payment processors may transfer, process and store your payment information outside of Canada, and this payment information may be subject to disclosure as required by applicable laws. See Stripe Privacy Policy

Sharing of Information

The Law Society may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on its behalf, such as filling requests, delivering packages, sending postal and e-mail, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access only to the Information that is needed to perform their function. These companies and individuals may not use the Information for other purposes.

The Law Society may release the Information when the Law Society believes that it is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of use of this website and other agreements and to protect the rights, property or safety of the Law Society and others who use this website. This includes exchanging the Information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit-risk reduction. The Law Society will not sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose the Information for commercial purposes.

Consent

By using this website and providing the Law Society with the Information, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the Information as specified in this Notice. You represent and warrant that you are lawfully authorized to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information that you provide the Law Society about a third party. You will indemnify and save harmless the Law Society, its benchers, officers and employees for all claims resulting from the collection use and disclosure of information about a third party that you provide the Law Society.

Security

The Law Society has security measures in place to protect the misuse and unauthorized disclosure of the Information. For example, to protect the security of the Information during transmission, the Law Society uses software which encrypts the Information. The internet is not a totally secure medium. The Law Society does not guarantee that its security measures will always be totally effective.

Information you can access

Upon request, the Society will give you access to the information collected about you that it has retained. Such requests should be directed to: admin@lawsociety.mb.ca.

Changes

The Law Society may change any part of this Privacy Notice at any time. Changes will be effective when the changed Privacy Notice is posted on this website. You may check the Privacy Notice changes by checking the date this Notice was last updated, at the top of this section.